Problem with persistent scaling/shifting in RADEONDisplayVideo()
Michel Dänzer
michel at tungstengraphics.com
Mon Jul 28 23:11:21 PDT 2008
On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 01:43 +0200, Roland Scheidegger wrote:
> On 28.07.2008 17:56, Thomas Hilber wrote:
> >> (Though, IMHO interlace should have been buried along with analog
> >> transmission - this clever 1930-ish hack just doesn't make much sense
> >> any longer and is just cause for pain...)
> >
> > interlace output still is important for driving conventional TV
> > hardware with SCART RGB input. That's what all my current hacking is
> > meant for. I try to develop a solution that recycles very cheap Radeon
> > hardware to high quality RGB/PAL output devices.
>
> "high quality" and "RGB/PAL" doesn't really fit in the same sentence if
> you ask me...
Probably nothing beats a good TV when it comes to de-interlacing etc.,
so it makes sense to preserve the broadcast signal as much as possible.
I assume that's what 'high quality' refers to in this context.
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